Qwest gives away corded phones for when the power’s out

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THE NEWS TRIBUNE
Published: December 16th, 2006 01:00 AM


Qwest is giving away free corded phones for people whose portable phones don’t work without power or who have cell phones they can’t recharge.
Qwest is offering the phones so people can call for help in an emergency, spokeswoman Shasha Richardson said.

If you have a phone jack and subscribe to a traditional provider, you can plug in a corded phone and make calls, Richardson said. The phones won’t work if you have Internet or cable-based service.

You don’t have to be a Qwest customer to get one.

The free phones are available at Qwest outlets in the Tacoma Mall, The Commons in Federal Way, the SuperMall in Auburn, Southcenter Mall in Tukwila and Westfield Mall in Olympia.

Richardson said all but a few Qwest customers had phone service Friday. A Verizon spokeswoman said its cell phone network had “a couple of sites” that went down earlier in the day, “but everything’s working just fine for us now.”

Kris Sherman, The News Tribune

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/6285126p-5482227c.html

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You might already have a corded phone, but it is plugged into a wall power socket and needs that power for the ringer. Your phone still works, but can't ring without power.

A very simple corded phone without the power cord to a wall socket gets its ringing power through the phone cord, and those phones work if the phone system is working, blackout or not. Every home should have at least one of these simple, cheap, reliable phones.